Farmak pharmaceutical company supports a balanced approach to revising state sanitary rules for the development of settlements in terms of reducing the sanitary zones of pharmaceutical companies.
“Farmak supports the gradual revision of state sanitary rules for planning and building up settlements in terms of reducing the sanitary zone of enterprises producing medicines. The process of revising state sanitary rules should be balanced and gradual, with constant expert monitoring of the level of impact of the enterprise’s work on the environmental situation and public health,” the company said in a statement posted on its website.
The company emphasizes that the current state sanitary rules adopted in 1996 are outdated and do not comply with the norms and rules that are in force in the EU.
“Now drug manufacturers use modern and safer equipment, the latest air and water purification systems, etc. The company has repeatedly informed the public about the removal of the production of active pharmaceutical ingredients that have the greatest impact on the environment outside Kyiv,” the company recalls.
Farmak notes that at present some media are conducting a targeted information attack on Kyiv-based plant Farmak.
“The most likely goal of the customers of the publications is to manipulate public opinion and Kyiv City Council deputies to clear the site in Podil for the next construction,” the company noted, stressing that the desire to build more residential buildings should not prevail over common sense.
“Neither the healthcare system, nor the economy of the country and, in particular, of Kyiv, can today afford to get rid of a European level manufacturer of medicines, a conscientious taxpayer, one of the best employers and exporter of products with high added value, to please the interests of individual business groups,” Farmak said.
“We are deeply convinced, provided that the general plan of the city is correctly drawn up, various formats of buildings can harmoniously coexist, as can be seen from numerous examples in the EU,” the report says.
